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The importance of biomedical informatics has been proven in the pathology diagnostics over the period of a decade by meeting many challenges that has been accomplished with the improvement in clinical service, telepathology, whole slide imaging, biobanking, and academic endeavors. There is still room for improvements with joint and active participation of the pathologist, informaticians, and biomedical investigators. This will ultimately prove the utility of an integrated workstation and improvement in the surgical pathology biomedical informatics systems.
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Amin, W., Chandran, U., Parwani, A.V., Becich, M.J. (2016). Biomedical Informatics for Anatomic Pathology. In: Cheng, L., Bostwick, D. (eds) Essentials of Anatomic Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23380-2_9
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